Philip Stubbs wrote:
> 2009/10/28 Sean Gibbins <sean@???>:
>
>> Chris Aitken wrote:
>>
>>> > Sean,
>>> > Whats with this "my bad". We are NOT AMERICANS...
>>>
>>> I've been living in the USA for a year or so. This example is way
>>> down on the
>>> list of annoyingizations of the language :)
>>>
>>> The one that gets me is Herbs, pronounced Erbs, and yet the ability to
>>> pronounce the letter H as Haitch.
>>>
>>> All Set.
>>>
>> The use of 'z' instead of 's' - as in Americanization - and also 'zee'
>> instead of 'zed' while we're at it!
>>
>>
>
> And they still claim to speak English! :-)
They can claim what ever they want, but I can tell you that after living
for nearly 30 years in the UK and having just been back in the USA for 1
month, most Yanks, cannot understand me. It the shift in vocabulary
they cannot cope with.
